Responding to all the posts at http://www.drudge.com/news/
98636/co2-highest-level-
650000-years (PART 1):
Let me see if I get this straight. CO2 has risen so fast in the past hundred years that it has exceeded anything within the past 650,000 years. Is that about right? And why is that Zat? Explain to me again how this is the fault of man?
You got it. Because of the Industrial Revolution. And by the way, the message is not "run for your life". The message is "stop poluting".
I heard last night on the news that a wedding leaves a huge carbon footprint, more than the equivalent for one person for one year. The answer to global warming then is to ban weddings. If you care at all about the planet, you will not get married.
Well, the choice is not all-carbon-or-no-wedding! There are ways to have a wedding that doesn't carry a big carbon footprint. Google your heart out for "green wedding".
One poster wrote:
Given there was no world for 640,000 of those years, this is no big surprise. More CO2 in the air is just God's way of helping the afghan poppies to grow.
Another wrote:
Oh bullshit! That's a lie. God made the earth 5 thousand years ago... 7 thousand... tops. [snip]
Those are examples of the many religous-based myths on the earth's age, which have proven to be false by lots of factual evidence lying in the earth. Earth is about
4.5 billion years old.
Fossils have been found on earth that date back 100's of millions of years when
dinosaurs were the dominant land species on earth. About 65 million years ago, a catastrophic extinction event ended the dominance of dinosaurs on land. That event paved the way for humans to dominate the land.
Bone remains from an earlier form of human have been found dating back 1.8 million years. You can find that
here.
If you need more proof that the earth is much much older than 10,000 years, there is plenty of documented evidence all over the internet. Google your heart out.
I suggest we keep religous beliefs out of this argument. But if you wish to be religous about this, how about the notion that we should not abuse God's world with all of our polution? I think it is a spiritual obligation, as well as a moral obligation to stop poluting this planet. We need to be pursuing clean energy. Our future well-being will depend on it.
One of the best-kept secrets in the global warming debate is that the plant life of Planet Earth would benefit greatly from a higher level of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.
Growth-wise, yes, but they loose some nutrition (see
bigger, not better. Also, at some point, the CO2 will trapping too much heat, and it will get too hot for the plants. Lots of plant life will likely die off in drought areas. So you have to consider more than just the CO2 itself - you have to consider the side-affects as well.
Plants do, they can't breath oxygen. Do you want to kill all the plants oza?
Plants have done very well with pre-industrial levels of CO2 for millions of years. They don't need the extra CO2 we have now. Think of other life on earth besides plants, ok?
